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WILLIAM H. HANKIN, JR, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,385, dated March 15, 1884.

Applicniion filed January 7. 1884. (No model.)

hole g and enters the body of the handle, as shown in Figs. 1 and I am aware that castmetal frames have been used for connecting saw-blades to their handles; but such cast-metal frames are heavy and ex- To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM H. HANKIN, 3%., a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, E. ll, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Saws, of which the folpensive, while my sheetmetal frame is very lowing is a specification. light and cheap, and, in addition thereto, it has This invention has for its object to provide the great advantage that its arms 6 b, being a simple, cheap, and efficient frame capable of flexible, can be readily bent to accommodate receiving saw-blades of varying thickness, and themselves to the edges of the handle, and the of being bent to conform to the upper and lower jaws c 0, being also flexible, are drawn close up edges of the wooden handle, and to provide a by the rivets 71 against the opposite sides of the saw-blade of novel construction, whereby it is blade, so that a firm, durable, light, and cheap braced and steadied back of the butt-end of the connection for the saw-blade with its handle is frame carrying the handle,whereby the saw is obtained. The jaws of the sheet-metal frame, nicely hung and evenly balanced, and a more being flexiblemre capable of yielding laterally, extended toothed edge may be provided. whereby saw-blades of varying thickness at the The objects of my invention I accomplish by butt-end can be introduced between the jaws the construction of parts hereinafter described and there confined by drawing the jaws upon and claimed, reference being had to the accomthe blades by the rivets. By the spur a the panying drawings, in which tail of theblade is held steady. If desired, the

Figurel represents aside elevation ofahandslot (1 in the frame D may be extended, so as saw constructed according to my invention. to admit the back edge of the tail 0 and to Fig. 2 is an inverted. plan of the same. Fig. 3 is steady said tail during the operation of sawing. a horizontal section in the plane 0 m, Fig. 1. hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Fig. 4 is a plan of the sheet-metal frame de- Letters Patent, istached before the same is bent. Fig. 5 is a 1. A frame-for connecting a handle with a perspective view of the same when bent. saw-blade, composed of a single piece of sheet Similarletters indicate corresponding parts. metal bent to form the upper and lower flexi- In the drawings, the letter A designates the ble arms, Z) Z), and the two parallel flexible jaws saw-blade, and Bis thehan dle. The saw-blade 0 0', said arms being capable of bending to conis provided with a tail, 0, from the back of form to the upper and lower edges of the hanwhich projects a spur, a... die, and the jaws capable of yielding laterally D is a sheet-metal frame which serves to seto receive between them saws of varying thickcure thcblade to the handle. This sheet-metal ncss, substantially as described. frame consists of two flexible arms, Z) Z), and 2. The combination,with ahandle, B, and a two jaws, c c". It is made of a fiat strip of sheet saw-blade,A,of the sheet-metal frameD,formed metal, (see Fig. 4,) into which is punched a integralwiththeupper and lowerilexible arms, slot, cl, and a series of holes, 6 c, f f and g. b b, bent to conform with and attached to the After the strip has been thus prepared, the arm upper and lower edges of the handle, and the b is bent to conform to the top edge of the hanflexible jaws c c, capable of yielding laterally dle B. The arm 5 is bentto conformto the hot and clamped upon the butt-end or" the sawtom edge of the handle, and the jaws c c are blade, substantially as described. turned inward,(see Fig. 5,) so as to leave just 3. The combination, with a saw handle and room enough between them to admit the butta slotted frame attached thereto, of a saw-blade end of the blade A. The flexible jaws c c are having its butt-end secured in the slot of the then fastened to the blade by means of rivets h, frame, and constructed with atail, 0, extending passing through theholes f f, and thearms b b back ofthebutt-end of the blade and supported are secured to thehandleby screwsi' 2 passing against the handle, substantially as described. through the holes 6 6, respectively, while the i. The combination,with a saw-handle, of a spur a on the back of the tail 0 passes through saw-blade having its butt-end connected with IOO I the handle, and constructed with a tail extend ing back of the butt-end of the blade and supported by the handle, substantially as and for the purpose described.

5. The combination of a handle, B, and a sheet-metal frame, 1), constructed with upper and lower flexible arms, Z) I), bent to conform with and secured to the upper and lower edges of the handle, and with two flexible jaws, c c, capable of yielding 1aterally,with a saw-blade, A, having its butt-end secured between the jaws, and constructed with a tail,O, extending back of the butt-end of the saw-blade and supportedbythehandle,substantiallyas described.

6. The combination of a handle, 13, and a sheet-metal slotted frame, D, having the fieXible arms I) b and flexible jaws c c, with the saw-blade having its butt-end secured between the jaws, and constructed with a tail, G, ex-

tending back of the butt-end of the blade and entering the slot in the frame, said tail being supported by the handle, substantially as described.

7. The combination of a handle, B, and a frame, D, having flexible arms I) b and flexible jaws c c, with a saw-blade, A, having its butt-end secured between the jaws, and constructed with a tail, 0, extending back of the buttend of the blade, and provided with a spur, a, entering the handle, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribin g witnesses.

WM. H. HANKIN, J 1 [L. s.]

\Vitn esses:

W. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

